Edward Keith-Roach

British Colonial administrator

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Edward Keith-Roach CBE


Administrator of Palestine

Personal details
Born	1885 Gloucester, England
Died	1954

Edward Keith-Roach OBE CBE (Born 1885 Gloucester, England - died 1954) was the British Colonial administrator during the British mandate on Palestine, who also served as the governor of Jerusalem from 1926 to 1945^{[dubious – discuss]} (excluding a period in the 1930s when he was governor of Galilee). He was posted during a period of great political upheaval, Reuters labelling him 'the Pasha of Jerusalem'.^[1]

References

^ The Museum of the Order of St John: The Almoner Altar and the ‘Pasha of Jerusalem’

Edward Keith-Roach is the author of a number of books about Palestine, and an Autobiography:

(1922): The Handbook of Palestine Publisher: Macmillan Company, 1922
(1930): The Handbook of Palestine and Trans-Jordan Publisher: Macmillan Company, 1930
(1994): Pasha of Jerusalem: Memoirs of a District Commissioner Under the British mandate Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,